Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 7 Reasons To Add Amplify To Your Social Networks December 21st, 2010 Tweet I first heard about Amplify earlier this year; I believe it was at the January chapter meeting of IABC/DC Metro.

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Laurel Papworth

JULY 13, 2010

Social Ads are driving down the price of regular online ads: A recent analysis by ComScore shows social networks, primarily Facebook and MySpace, have over the last year drawn an average CPM of only 56 cents, compared to the $2.43 Situational advertising during social discussions by clintjcl on Flickr.

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Courtney Love gets sued over tweets | Main | Cyber Monday Is Here! » November 24, 2009 Social Networking Meets Game Consoles There used to be a time where you could play video games for video games and use the computer for computer related things. What do you think?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

Social media is about helping one another and building real strong friendships, usually around a certain interest or activity. Here are five steps you can take: Review In a committed relationship, if there is any hint of disagreement in the social space, it’s time to sit down and look at one another’s social networks.

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SocialFish

MARCH 18, 2011

One concern is that many policies do not extend coverage for activities on third party social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr and other group and networking sites not hosted on the association’s web site. The policy may have a definition but you can broaden it by endorsement.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2019

Automating social media activity certainly doesn’t mean a completely hands-off process. Social media platforms and practices evolve constantly. The first step is to choose which social media sites on which to focus your activities. First things first. This may fail to deliver the desired results.

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Social Media Marketing

JULY 23, 2011

But in the world of social networks, to me it means how many platforms and sites can you keep up with before it's simply too much? Now, with the advent of Google+ coming online, we potentially have four major social networks to track and interact on. ion-bogdan dumitrescu (Flickr) --. Image credit: bitzi ?

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SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

If your organization is considering getting active in social or if you’re analyzing your current efforts, take a look at the following list and make sure you’re not undermining the success of your activities. Want to fail at social media? Online social networking is no different.

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Myrland Marketing

APRIL 6, 2010

Home About Services Social Media Speaking-Training LMA Contact Subscribe Myrland Marketing Minutes Strategic Social Media: Making Social Media Make Sense THE BEST SOCIAL NETWORK FOR LAWYERS, OR ANYONE, IS… by Nancy Myrland on April 6, 2010 An interesting question was posed on a legal marketing forum of which I am a member.

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Direct Marketing Observations

APRIL 19, 2010

“I’m on top of it, I know what this social networking thing is all about&# , “My child doesn’t really use it&# , “Does it really matter? Create hundreds of profiles on hundreds on networks. Share images on Flickr. It goes viral in a social network and people get hurt.

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Social Media Marketing

APRIL 22, 2011

It sits squarely in the social networking space, but it has a different twist - one from which I think businesses may be able to gain valuable insights, all while allowing people to enjoy themselves. But like the other sites, it's also a social network itself. Empire Avenue is the new game in town. What is it?

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The social network, as most of us think of it, is nothing more than the likes of Facebook or Orkut, among others. So I’m using this post to showcase such a community that has been actively working around sustainability. Image: cambodia4kidsorg via Flickr, CC 3.0. Readers: what you think about this community?

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Justin Levy

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

When we talk about social media platforms there is a tendency to point to Twitter and Facebook as the platforms where we all agree that we spend a majority of our time online. When we need photos we head over to Flickr. Twitter and Facebook are the dominant platforms in our lives and LinkedIn takes a backseat to those activities.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

At a recent BlogWell event I got a chance to hear Robert Raines from Chevron present his Social Media program and how he reports their activity into the Boardroom. It all starts with the Pulse Report that Chevron had produced by Edelman (their PR firm) using their Alterian’s SM2 social media monitoring tool.

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Harp Interactive

JANUARY 12, 2011

Backing up your social media information is helpful for personal use and a no brainer for any business with an active social presence! This October, the social network got hip to data portability after it started allowing users to download their profiles — photos, statuses, updates, videos and all.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 20, 2011

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. This surfaces in posts like Social Media Skepticism , 5 reasons why social media skeptics maybe right and Business social networking: where’s the ROI?

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recently noticed that the service has added several other social media services to its metrics, which increases its value a hundred-fold (though I’d still say it’s overly weighted toward Twitter). Flickr – The photo sharing platform. Foursquare – The local networking website.

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Justin Levy

JUNE 5, 2011

Now that Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr are out ahead as the major social networks, it becomes harder to debate social platforms, though it definitely still occurs, especially with location-based platforms. Others want to debate which has the most active community. Some want to debate the ease of use.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 21, 2013

” Then I thought again, because a) I’m not as frenetically active on Twitter these days as I used to be, and b) who the heck cares how I use Twitter? Image: TheNextWeb via Flickr, CC 2.0. Actively participate in Twitter chats. When I first started writing this post, I was going to call it “How I Use Twitter.”

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 30, 2012

followers/fans/circles, how complete is their profile, level of activity). Other social activity and presence (Flickr, SlideShare, Wikipedia, etc.). This is as simple as searching within “groups” on each social networking site for your primary keywords and recording the results.

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Social Media Marketing

JULY 13, 2011

Prior to the rise of social networks, online brand management solely focused on common SEO techniques such as keywords, content, and proper HTML code. For many companies’ marketing teams these social networking sites have been a marketing dream. Companies should also be actively engaging their customers.

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Adam Cohen

JANUARY 13, 2015

These models are built through survey data and can be the backbone of a sophisticated, integrated marketing program to identify, engage and activate those segments. Faced with new data about social media behaviors, marketers need to figure out how to integrate social media behaviors into those models.

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Adam Cohen

JANUARY 13, 2015

These models are built through survey data and can be the backbone of a sophisticated, integrated marketing program to identify, engage and activate those segments. Faced with new data about social media behaviors, marketers need to figure out how to integrate social media behaviors into those models.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. If you’re not actively engaged, the news won’t come at you. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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The Way of the Web

JULY 17, 2010

Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← Live cross-platform mobile gaming arrives Users dissatisfied with social networks – are you surprised? The internet is not inherently anything, despite the fact it was based on openness and sharing, or the fact it can be used for misinformation, criminal activity or censorship.

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Social Media Marketing

MAY 15, 2013

And if you’re on Flipboard, you can get these links in the This Week in Social Media Magazine. Global platform growth, the expanding role of video, social network acquisition rumors, data plays by two of the majors, chefs behaving badly and more - it''s This Week in Social Media. Image credit: Jill Clardy (Flickr).

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Myrland Marketing

JANUARY 18, 2013

Regardless of which Marketing and Social Networking sites we use, we can learn something from the following numbers. Instagram has 90 million monthly active users. Pro bono and other community activity. How often do your firms share photos of your people and activity? THE NUMBERS ARE TELLING. 8500 likes per second.

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The Way of the Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

and Flickr. Which brings us to quantity – various people have look at how quantity changes your scores, and there’s plenty of evidence alongside the existence of it as an explicit activity metric in Peerindex.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 14, 2013

It’s an idea shared first by Steve Rubel , though I’m not sure he meant to take it as far and as literal as I’m going to here, but the basic gist is that your website is your homeland and your social networking accounts are your embassies. We don’t have that advantage on a social network. The option just doesn’t exist.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

If social media and blogs in the U.S reach nearly 80% of active U.S. Attending the session “A Dr, Patient & Insurer Walk into a Social Network“ at SxSW last year really opened my eyes to the social media obstacles healthcare professionals face. Image: aeu04117 via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 24, 2015

If you want to compete in today’s fast paced business environment, you have to be social. But just simply being active on Twitter, Facebook, and all the rest is never enough. How can you track your social media efforts to ensure that your strategy is up to par? 5 Social Media Metrics You Can Stop Tracking Yesterday.

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Tweet Guest post by Connie Bensen , the Director of Community Strategy and Social Media at Alterian , which provides leading marketing products for the enterprise. Brands have realized that social networks offer an opportunity to interact directly with consumers. She also blogs at [link]. Influencer identification.

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Talkwalker SM

MAY 12, 2016

Corporate spending on sponsorship activity will hit 60 billion dollars in 2016. But despite this vast expenditure, measuring the ROI of sponsorship remains a tricky business , especially with social media changing the game when it comes to measuring the reach of a brand or logo.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 21, 2012

It’s a terrific way to post to a number of social networks, schedule posts and listen in on what’s going on, either by creating dedicated searches or creating streams of Twitter lists you’ve set up. Top image: Andy Hares via Flickr, CC 2.0. HootSuite. I’ve been a HootSuite fan for a long time.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Supplement your email list with your contacts’ social network info? Find out if the username or vanity URL you want is still available across dozens of social sites? Display a feed of brand-related comments from a variety of social networks on your website? Promote events through social media?

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Social Media Marketing

APRIL 11, 2013

A very notable 60% identify as medium-to-heavy social networking users, with 18% identifying as heavy users. Monty''s following finds itself with an Average Network a very notable 10X the size of that of the average Twitter user; with this account''s audience finding itself with an average social network of about 4,000 connections.

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The Marketing Blog

MARCH 8, 2010

Quotes from the Money Life article Iffort’s report states that usage of Twitter will penetrate more organisations, and more firms and customers will start using this social networking tool.Conversations between users and brands which are managed by humans with an emotional quotient will continue to boost Indian marketing efforts.

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